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Traffic controls around the Cross Keys Bridge will be eased at Easter ahead of overnight closures in May, Lincolnshire County Council say in an update on the works being carried out. Temporary traffic lights are currently in place at the Sutton Bridge crossing over the River Nene which acts as the main route between Lincolnshire and Norfolk. Lincolnshire County Council ...

A single theme and updated furniture for three areas of Spalding is being drawn up in a bid to ‘future-proof’ the town. The junctions of Bridge Street and Double Street, Swan Street and New Road as well as Hall Place have been ear-marked as potential places to invest by the Town Centre Improvement Steering Group. South Holland District Council is ...

Another planning application has been submitted for a 5G telephone mast in Spalding. Initial proposals to construct a 20m and then a 15m pole on the junction of Wygate Park and Claudette Avenue were refused. After two refusals, the company is now submitting plans for a ‘super slimline monopole’ of 15m. The applicant, CK Hutchinson for the Three network said ...

A developer has applied to build more homes on Holbeach land that’s been the subject of two previous application refusals. The land to the rear of 37 Fleet Road was previously subject to applications to build one home in 2016 and six homes in 2020. Both were turned down by South Holland District Council’s planning officers who felt the homes ...

A council owned property firm is donating its profit margin totalling £115k to two local charities. Welland Homes, a housing company wholly owned by South Holland District Council, is to give the money to Citizens Advice South Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire Community Voluntary Services. The company was incorporated in 2015 and has 39 open market rental properties. Citizens Advice will receive ...

South Holland District Council has been awarded £150,000 to provide accessible toilet facilities in the area. The money has been allocated as part of the Changing Places Fund released by the government. The South and East Lincolnshire Councils partnership has been awarded a total of £660,000 under the scheme. South Holland will create three new facilities, Boston will have four, ...

Officials are being asked to look at increasing the cost of what organisations pay for the use of council facilities due to rising costs. The rising expense of turning on the floodlights at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field was one of the examples given by Spalding Town Forum as to why South Holland District Council should look into whether ...

Spalding’s fire crews are among those allegedly breaching traffic regulations and driving through Spalding Town Centre, a meeting has been told. Members of Spalding Town Forum heard last week that CCTV could not be used to prosecute drivers flouting the ban on driving through Market Place and Hall Place between 10am and 4pm, Monday to Saturday. Lincolnshire Police are meant ...

The proposed locations for Spalding’s new street art walls have been announced along with the initial ideas on their designs. A design promoting the environment is being readied for six to eight panels on the Castle Sports Complex over-looking the car park in Westlode Street, a meeting of Spalding Town Forum has been told. The former toilets behind the bowling ...

Spalding residents should think about how they’re represented politically, including the potential for creating a town council, ahead of local government reorganisation, the chair of its town forum says. Unusually for a town of its size, there’s no elected parish or town council. The Spalding Town Forum is overseen by South Holland District Council, largely using its councillors and members ...

Around 10,000 illegal cigarettes have been seized from a shop in Spalding town centre after a tip-off from a member of the public. Lincolnshire Trading Standards is not revealing the name and exact location of the store pending future investigations. It and Lincolnshire Police visited the shop in the centre of Spalding last Thursday (March 24). Footage captured by Trading ...

Just days after saying dips were inevitable, Lincolnshire County Council has again had to close a Holbeach road after a sinkhole reopened. A small part of Boston Road South, Holbeach – between Tesco and Holbeach Primary School – has opened up, leaving a hole in the road surface. That’s despite extensive works having been carried out on the road in ...

Long Sutton Parish Council is looking to install CCTV at its allotments following the latest break in. The council’s chairman John Clarey said that the lock on the gate was broken at some point last week and thieves stole a trailer. “It’s very sad this is happening with the majority of our tenants are retired and keep the allotments very ...

Spalding’s historic water fountain is being proposed to be on the site of the former paddling pool in Ayscoughfee Gardens. South Holland District Council is in a couple of weeks set to submit a planning application to site the Johnson Memorial Drinking Fountain there after rejecting calls for it to be erected in the town centre. The Voice revealed in ...

Street art could soon be coming to South Holland with the blessing of the district council. A new policy around the whole issue of graffiti and art is being drawn-up with plans to allow artists to work with permission on council-owned property. Hundreds of people signed a petition last year supporting the move after artists Karl Barfoot and Adam Sadd ...

A ‘Business Bubble’ is to be created at Spalding Library through government funding. Lincolnshire County Council has been awarded £211,200 to provide confidential workspaces equipped with modern technologies that small and start up businesses can utilise. Thanks to the funding by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports, delivered by Arts Council England, one will be in Lincoln and ...

Noise monitoring is to take place at a Whaplode dog kennel after an application came before planners last week. Mundicao Kennels in Dowsdale Bank had applied for permanent permission for its canine accommodation and dog training service after a 12-month trial. But last week South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee voted to pass another year long trial after a councillor ...

A plan to build four homes in Holbeach has been rejected over concerns of the impact it would have on a neighbour. Adam Rulewski is looking to demolish 47 Low Road and replace it with four detached dwellings, permission for which was granted last year. The latest application for a new layout came before South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee ...

South Holland District Council says it is to launch a lottery aiming to help local community groups and charities. The authority initially announced the proposal in September 2020 with 60 per cent of takings going to the good causes that sign up, the rest going to the running of the competition. Since then it’s gone into partnership with Boston and ...

Long awaited works to rebuild a Spalding roundabout will finally begin in early April. The work around Halmer Gate roundabout was originnaly scheduled to take place last July, but was then postponed. The works, which will be carried out in two phases, will start on Monday April 4 for three weeks. Cllr Richard Davies, executive member for highways, said: “Despite this ...